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As part of the Government of Canada's environmental agenda, the ecoFREIGHT program will take new steps to reduce the environmental and health effects of freight transportation through the use of technology.
The program consists of six initiatives:
- National Harmonization Initiative for the Trucking Industry:
identifying regulatory barriers and solutions
in collaboration with provinces and territories, so that
the Canadian trucking industry can embrace emissions-reducing
technologies.
- ecoENERGY for Fleets: reducing fuel use and
emissions in commercial and institutional fleets via training,
sharing of best practices, anti-idling campaigns, technical analysis to
look for potential improvements and other technology opportunities.
- Freight Technology Demonstration Fund: establishing cost-shared demonstrations to test and measure new and
underused freight transportation technologies in real-world conditions.
- Freight Technology
Incentives Program: providing cost-shared
funding to companies and non-profit organizations in freight
transportation to help them to purchase and install proven emission-reducing
technologies.
- ecoFREIGHT Partnerships: building and maintaining partnerships
within the transportation sector to reduce emissions from freight
transportation through fast and flexible voluntary actions that can
support the regulatory framework.
- Marine Shore Power: demonstrating the use of
shore-based power for marine vessels in Canadian ports to reduce air
pollution from idling ship engines in some of Canada's largest urban
centres.
The ecoFREIGHT program builds on the major-infrastructure investments
that the Government of Canada announced in the 2006 federal budget, as well as
the best elements of past freight technology initiatives that are
consistent with the Government's objectives and approach. It also complements other
measures, like regulating emissions from rail and marine transportation and fuel
consumption of new light duty vehicles, announced in the fall.